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An Ideal Gas Turbine Cycle with Many Stages of Compression

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An ideal gas turbine cycle with many stages of compression and expansion and a regenerator of 100 percent effectiveness has an overall pressure ratio of 8. Air enters every stage of compressor at 290 K, and every stage of turbine at 1500 K. The thermal efficiency of this gas-turbine cycle is


A) 19%
B) 45%
C) 65%
D) 100%
E) 81%

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